"The war we fight today is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century."

It's not a great stretch from the Bush/Cheney 'ideological struggle of the 21st century' to the 'clash of civilizations', or to a modern-day Judeo-Christian crusade on Islam and Arabdom. Whatever it is called it is all masked with the rhetoric of 'freedom' and 'democracy'.